We cover this on our Access into V-Ray for SketchUp courses, held at the end of every month over Zoom! Key takeaway to improve your V-Ray textures: always change the reflection colour from black Note the difference between reflection intensity and reflection glossiness Whereas when we set our reflection colour to white, we see really intense reflections. Reflections are visible in almost every material – there are very few exceptions to this in the world around us.Ĭonsequently, as CGI artists, we need to represent this within our work and ensure that our materials are always programmed to reflect light.Īs you can see, when we have our reflection colour set to black, we do not see any reflections… Never leave the reflection colour as black We are often asked for guidance on how to improve the quality of V-Ray textures, so we want to give you our 5x top tips which will supercharge your workflow and boost the realism of your work!ġ.

Click Sign in with Trimble and enter your Trimble ID and password.Improve your V-Ray Textures using these 5 top tips!.

A V-Ray for SketchUp Studio page will appear.

After installation you'll see options to open the release notes file or share anonymous data with Chaos Group.

V-Ray for SketchUp requires the Local option for licensing.

Select Advanced to specify if you want to install Chaos Swarm and licensing options.

Select Install to use the default installation options.

When prompted, select the version of SketchUp you are using.

Please review the license agreement and click Next for your installation options.

After the download completes, locate the installer and double-click to launch.

Download the V-Ray for SketchUp installer, available in your Account Management Portal.

If you already downloaded SketchUp, you can follow these steps below to install V-Ray for SketchUp Maxwell-, Pascal-, Volta-, Turing- and Ampere- based NVIDIA card with latest recommended video driverV-Ray Vision requires a Graphics card with DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 and Shader Model 5.0 capabilities. Minimum 2GB, recommended 12GB (includes additional downloadable content) Intel* 64, AMD64 or compatible processor with SSE4.2 support

Note: V-Ray is only supported for 64-bit operating systems and 64-bit version of SketchUp.

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